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Whether you are interested in the career of an individual service woman or just want to know more about the part played by service women in a particular war or campaign, this book is for you. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of service women, Mary Ingham explains which records survive, where they can be found and how they can help you in your research.

She also vividly described the role of women with the armed services from the Crimean War of the 1850s to the aftermath of the First World War and offers an insight into what the records can tell you about the career of an English ancestor who served at home or abroad.

From the army schoolmistresses to the Women's Land Army, her account outlines the history of each service, describes uniforms and gives examples of daily life and likely experiences. This is the book you need if you want to follow up those clues in your family's history - stories heard from older relatives, pictures in family photograph albums, handed-down uniforms, badges or medals that seem to indicate that one of your women ancestors served in wartime.

Contents:AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1. Army Schoolmistresses and QAS

Nursing and Medical Services2. Crimea Nurses3. Army Nursing Service4. Care of the Wounded in the First World War5. The Voluntary Aid Detatchments6. Military and Naval Masseuses7. First Aid Nursing Yeomanry8. Meducal Women with the Armed Forces in the First World War9. RAF Nursing Service and PMRAFNS10. Queen Alexandra's Military Families Nursing Service11. Naval Nursiong Service12. Indian Army Nursing Service and QAMNSI

Women's Auxiliary Services13. Women's Auxiliary Services in the First World War14. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps15. Women's Royal Naval Service16. Women's Royal Air Force17. Women's Forage Corp18. Women's Land Army